
"I am Music, who with dulcet accents know how to soothe each troubled heart, and now with passion, now with noble rage, my power can inflame the coldest mind."
-"Musica"
from the prologue of Monteverdi and Striggio's L'orfeo 1609
Obtruncate: v, trans. To cut or lop off the head or top of; to decapitate.
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